THE UNITED NATIONS COMMISSION ON SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FOR DEVELOPMENT 13 th SESSION 17-21 May 2010 Geneva Contribution by ECA Follow up of WSIS implementation in Africa MR. MAKANE FAYE OIC, e-applications Section United Nations Economic Commission for Africa The views presented here are the participants and do not necessarily reflect the views and the position of the United Nations or the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development
Follow up of WSIS implementation in Africa Commission on Science and Technology for Development (CSTD) 17 May 2010 Makane Faye OIC, e-applications e Section United Nations Economic Commission for Africa http://www.uneca.org/aisi
Background ICTs continue to play an increasingly important role in both national and sub-regional levels Leading to increase in requests seeking the support of ECA to develop and fine tune e- strategies and sub-regional frameworks Focus has shifted on promotion of sectors & ICT applications in governance, education, health, agriculture, finance, trade, etc. through implementation of WSIS Action Lines in the framework of the African Information Society Initiative (AISI)
Status of e-strategy e development & Political commitmment Survey on implementation of WSIS Action Lines in Africa 43 countries have an ICT policy, 4 countries are in the process of developing an ICT policy; while only 6 have not initiated the ICT policy development process 80% strongly agreed that ICT4D were part of their national priorities 10% agreed that ICT4D was part of their priorities 10% indicated that ICT4D was not a priority ICT4D was mainstreamed in several PRSPs
Algeria Benin Burkina Faso Botswana Burundi Cape Verde Cameroon Central African Republic Chad Comoros Congo Cote d'ivoire Djibouti Egypt Ethiopia Gambia Ghana Guinea Kenya Lesotho Liberia Madagascar Malawi Mali Mauritania Mauritius Morocco Mozambique Namibia Niger Nigeria Rwanda Senegal Seychelles South Africa Sierra Leone Sudan Swaziland Tanzania Tunisia Uganda Zambia ICT Policy development in Africa (March 2010) Angola Democratic Republic of the Congo Gabon Togo Equatorial Guinea Eritrea Guinea-Bissau Libyan Arab Jamahiriya Sao Tome and Principe Somalia Countries with an ICT policy Copyright, UNECA, 2010 Countries in the process of developing an ICT policy Countries where the ICT policy development process has not been launched
Focus on sectoral strategies As most African countries have finalized there ICT policy, ECA embarked on sectoral strategy development and implementation Access to the majority of the population being one of the AISI goals, there was need to promote applications which are geared to availability of e-services including government and other basic services through ICTs Sectoral strategies are being spatially enabled through Geoinformation systems
Space enabled strategies Ensure that spatial data, products and services are available to better inform decision makers Ensure that spatial and visual data are available to persons who need them to make decisions with minimal processing Setting up harmonized and coordinated regional data bases GPS applications are developed in local language in several African countries
Implementing the WSIS Action lines in Africa: Analysis of Country Reports
List of current sectoral strategies in member States 1. e-education 2. e-government 3. e-health 4. e-commerce 5. e-agriculture 6. e-services for Rural development
Priority policy focus areas
General overview of implementation 85 % of countries promote e-business applications 60 % have programmes on building health information systems but most lack ICT-based system to alert, monitor and control communicable diseases and deal with emergency 60 % confirm government support to local content 57 % have established a public-private partnership mechanism
Access and Costs Many fiber optic cables connecting Africa to the rest of the world are operational: Atlantis 2 SEA-ME-WE 2, 3 and 4 SAT3/SAFE TEAMs Seacom Lion CAB GLO-1, etc. Wholesale tariffs have fallen
Investment and mobile boom Investment in ICT infrastructure has jumped from USD 3.5 billion in 2000 to US$ 8 billion in 2008 leading to expansion of mobile services and broadband infrastructure development. Loans were provided to several countries to develop the ICT infrastructure and applications, especially e-government and e-education. The mobile sector has grown from 16 million subscribers in 2000 to 370 million in 2009
70 60 50 40 30 20 10 0 Burundi Congo Cote d'ivoire DRC Egypt Ethiopia The Gambia Ghana Guinea Bissau Kenya Madagascar Mali M ozambique Nigeria Niger Senegal Sudan Togo Uganda Zambia Telephone per 100 people Mobile per 100 people Mainline telephone and mobile sets per 100 inhabitants
Comparison of mobile penetration between 2003 and 2008 in Central Africa
African Cross-border initiatives ICTs are becoming indispensable integration process ECOWAS Head of States adopted in February 2010, 2 Acts, respectively on Electronic Transactions and on Personal Data Protection ECCAS adopted a Strategy for the Information Society in April 2010 COMESA started implementing various axis of its ICT Strategy guidelines including the ICT indicators, e- Government, e-legislation and e-security An Infrastructure data base on all transport modes was developed for the Central African sub-region Several GPS CORS Stations and many GNSS Base stations were installed in African Sub regions and countries
Partnership on Measuring ICT for Development International members: ITU, OECD, UNCTAD, UNDESA, UNESCO Institute for Statistics, World Bank Regional members: ECA, ECLAC, ESCAP, ESCWA, Eurostat Launched during UNCTAD XI as part of the WSIS process Developed a core list of ICT indicators covering ICT infrastructure, ICT in households, ICT in businesses, ICT sector and trade, ICT in education Endorsed by the UN Statistics Commission Established the following Task Groups: Task Group on ICT Statistics in Education Task Group on e-government (TGEG) indicators Task Group on Measuring ICT Impact Task Group on WSIS Targets
E-government Indicators government Indicators Task Group on e-government (TGEG) indicators coordinated by ECA To measure e-government deployment in countries at central and local levels To benchmark and compare countries and regions A draft list of 12 indicators is available Meeting of TGEG members held on 13 May 2010 during the WSIS Forum Draft framework with indicators, being compiled with support of the Government of Finland, will be circulated in July 2010 Final document will be launched in November 2010 at the (ITU WTIM 2010)
Focus on Action Line 7: e-government e (1) 80 per cent of respondents indicated that they have e-government strategies in place 70 per cent of the respondents indicated that their countries participate in international cooperation initiatives in the field of e-government Most countries indicated that there is widespread availability of Internet connectivity in Government ministries, agencies and departments, as well as a growing web presence
Gambia Togo Uganda Senegal Sudan 120 100 80 60 40 20 0 Benin Burundi Congo Cote d'ivoire Egypt Ethiopia Ghana Guinea Bissau Kenya Madagascar Mali Mozambique Niger Nigeria DRC Status and progress in government connectivity, websites and online services
0.5 0.4 0.3 0.2 0.1 0 Central Africa Eastern Africa Northern Africa Southern Africa West Africa World E-government readiness index of Africa
Focus on Action Line 7: e-government e (2) Only few countries provide public services online UNDESA s E-Government Readiness Index shows that Africa is way below the world average To correct this situation, ECA promotes development of e-government strategies and access to e-services through direct assistance to member States and staging the Technology in Government in Africa (TIGA) Awards
The Technology in Government Awards in Africa (TIGA) http://www.uneca.org/tiga
Partners Organisers: ECA, the Canadian epolicy Resource Centre (CePRC) and the Government of Finland Sponsors of the 2007/2009 TIGA Awards: OSISA, Governments of Italy, Ethiopian Airlines, Microsoft, Nokia- Siemens Network, Alcatel-Lucent, Jupiter Hotel, Harmony Hotel, Ethiopian Insurance Company, SABC and Africable
Objectives of TIGA To promote access to e-services To encourage the use of ICTs by African governments in fulfilling their public service delivery obligations To recognize outstanding work in developing ICT applications for service delivery by African governments as well as other stakeholders
TIGA s 5 Categories 1. Public service delivery to citizens/communities online Government service delivery 2. Improved health services through the use of ICTs 3. Improved educational services through the use of ICTs 4. Public Public Private Partnership (PPP) in economic and financial eservices delivery 5. The judges awards projects which do not fall in above 4 categories but are with great importance
TIGA 2008 Winners TIGA 2008 Winners Fez government project (efez Project), Morocco Projecto Portal do Governo (Government Portal Project), Angola RWANDA TRACnet, Rwanda Automation of Secondary School Placement and Online Exam Result Delivery, Kenya Egyptian Education Initiative, Egypt ORBUS, Solution de facilitation électronique du commerce au Sénégal Electrogaz SMS Utility Payment System, Rwanda Classe Rurale En Langues Nationales, Burkina Faso Court Administration Reform, Ethiopia Instant Money Transfer (IMT) Service, Ghana Projet des Démarches Administratives, Senegal
TIGA 2009 Winners CATEGORY 1: Identity Document Transformation Project, Department of Home Affairs, South Africa Connecting Communities - Kitsong Centres, Department of Information Technology (DIT), Ministry of Communications, Science and Technology, Botswana Woreda Net, Ethiopian ICT Development Agency, Ethiopia CATEGORY 2: Telemedicine Pilot Project, National Space Research & Development Agency (NASRDA), Nigeria Women Healthcare Mobile Unit Project, Ministry of communication and information technology, Egypt Implementation of data management system for the national centre of pharmacovigilance in Tunisia, PRAGMACOM, Tunisia
TIGA 2009 Winners, ctd CATEGORY 3: E-applications -Secondary school certificate, Educational Information Centre Ministry of Education, Sudan Distance Learning Portal, National Commission of Information Technologies, Angola CATEGORY 4: On-line Trade procedures: Secured Transportation, Corporation Tunisia Trade Net, Tunisia Chams Partnership with Osun State Government on Implementation of Enterprise Government e-portal, Nigeria Category 5: Mozambique Government Portal, Mozambique On-line information services for users and collaborative portail for professionals, Ministry of Helath, Mali Kaduna State Staff Audit & Pensioners Verification and Benue State Staff Audit, Supercard Ltd., Nigeria Inscription universitaire à distance, Ministère de l'enseignement Supérieur, de la Recherche Scientifique et de la Technologie, Tunisia
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